Overland Park

Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas, United States of America
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Sprint World Headquarters Campus (Q7581306)
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The T-Mobile Headquarters Campus is a collection of 17 buildings encompassing 3,900,000-square-foot (360,000 m2) on 200 acres in Overland Park, Kansas that formerly housed the world headquarters of Sprint Corporation, an American telecom company.

Strang Carriage House (Q16900775)
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The Strang Carriage House is a historical building and museum in Overland Park, Kansas. It was originally constructed by William B. Strang Jr. for his carriages, automobiles and to serve as a residence for his driver. The exterior of the building is constructed of rough limestone with a clay tile roof and still has the original doors from its construction (sometime around 1915).

Johnson County Library (Q6268255)
item type: library
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Johnson County Library (JCL), established in 1952, is the county library system for Johnson County, Kansas and includes 14 branches. As of 2013, it had 1,092,294 items. It lent 6,690,893 items in 2013. It serves a population of 598,555.

website: http://www.jocolibrary.org

Blue Valley Sports Complex (Q4929980)
item type: sports venue
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The Blue Valley Sports Complex (or the District Athletic Complex, commonly known as the DAC) is a baseball, football, swimming and soccer complex located in Overland Park, Kansas. The complex is regularly home to the local high schools, Blue Valley North High School, Blue Valley Northwest High School, and Blue Valley West High School, and also held various games for Sporting Kansas City in 2001, 2004, 2006, and 2011.

Saint Paul School of Theology (Q7402050)
item type: seminary / private not-for-profit educational institution
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Saint Paul School of Theology (SPST) is a United Methodist seminary in Leawood, Kansas, United States. In addition to the Kansas City area campus at Church of the Resurrection, Saint Paul School of Theology at Oklahoma City University has been offering courses since September 2008. The Oklahoma campus works in a collaboration with Oklahoma City University in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Additionally, the Kansas Campus works in partnership with the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection to serve the Greater Kansas City Metro Area in Leawood, KS. The student body has almost equal numbers of men and women, representing many states and other countries. While most students are United Methodist, several other denominations are represented in the student body each year.

Street address: 13720 Roe Avenue, Leawood, KS, 66224 (from Wikidata)

website: http://www.spst.edu

Breech Academy (Q4960172)
item type: flight school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Breech Academy (also called Breech Training Academy) was a school operated by Trans World Airlines between 1969 and 1988 to train flight attendants, ticket agents, and even pilots. Management training classes were attended there by TWA employees as well as external managers and prospective managers. It was named for TWA executive Ernest R. Breech.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: Defunct private universities and colleges in Kansas
Cleveland Chiropractic College (Q5132088)
item type: private not-for-profit educational institution
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Street address: 10850 Lowell Avenue, Overland Park, KS, 66210 (from Wikidata)

website: http://www.cleveland.edu

Cleveland University-Kansas City (Q24693547)
item type: academic institution
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Cleveland University-Kansas City (CUKC) is a private university in Overland Park, Kansas, United States. Cleveland University-Kansas City is known primarily for its chiropractic doctorate program (D.C.) but it also offers associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees. The university has been in operation in the Kansas City area since 1922 and has occupied its current 34-acre Overland Park, Kansas, location since 2008.

website: http://www.cleveland.edu

Metcalf South Shopping Center (Q6823346)
item type: shopping mall
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Metcalf South Shopping Center was a shopping mall in Overland Park, Kansas. It opened in 1967, near a large, unique department store called the French Market, which later became a strip mall anchored by Kmart and Hancock Fabrics (the Kmart closed in late 2013 and Hancock announced a move in early 2014). The Metcalf South mall itself originally featured two main floors of retail space, although later a third floor of retail space was added, which in recent years became home to office space. It featured two anchor stores (Sears and the Jones Store Company), later taken over by Macy's. Sears and the Glenwood Arts movie theater remained open in later years, while Macy's announced the closure of its Metcalf South store in January 2014.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: 2014 disestablishments in Kansas, Defunct shopping malls in the United States, Demolished shopping malls in the United States
KCTY (Q6327423)
item type: broadcaster
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

KCTY was a television station in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. It broadcast on ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 25 from June 6, 1953, to February 28, 1954, and was the second television station to begin broadcasting in the Kansas City area, after WDAF-TV. KCTY was an affiliate of the DuMont Television Network; and originally owned by the Empire Coil Company, which had pioneered UHF telecasting, DuMont purchased the station outright at the end of 1953 and operated it for two months as a study in the problems of struggling UHF stations nationwide before concluding that there was no path to economic viability. The studio for KCTY was located in the Pickwick Hotel in downtown Kansas City, Missouri; the transmitter was located in a rural area that today is part of Overland Park, Kansas.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: 1954 disestablishments in Missouri, Defunct mass media in Missouri, Defunct television stations in the United States
Heritage Christian Academy (Kansas) (Q16892225)
item type: school
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Heritage Christian Academy is a private Christian school with campuses in Overland Park, Kansas and Olathe, Kansas. It serves pre-kindergarten through grade 12.

Shawnee Mission District Stadium (Q14689935)
item type: sports venue
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Shawnee Mission District Stadium is a multi-purpose sport stadium located in Overland Park, Kansas. The facility is primarily used by Shawnee Mission North High School, Shawnee Mission Northwest High School and Shawnee Mission East High School. In the 2013 season of the National Women's Soccer League, the stadium served as the home field for FC Kansas City. Sporting Kansas City, then called the Kansas City Wizards, played at the stadium in a match against the Colorado Rapids during the 2008 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: Former National Women's Soccer League stadiums
Harmony Middle School (Q5659576)
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Strengthen the Arm of Liberty Monument (Q7623257)
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The Strengthen the Arm of Liberty Monument in Overland Park, Kansas, is a replica of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World). It was placed by the Boy Scouts of America as part of its 1950s era campaign, "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty".

Blue Valley Unified School District (Q4929985)
item type: school district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Blue Valley USD 229 is a public unified school district headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, United States. Located in east central and southeast Johnson County, Kansas, covering 91 square miles (240 km2) of Overland Park including parts of Leawood and Stilwell, all within the Kansas City Metropolitan Area.

website: https://district.bluevalleyk12.org/Pages/Home.aspx

Naka-Kon (Q6960087)
item type: anime convention / recurring event
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Naka-Kon is an annual three-day anime convention held during March at the Overland Park Convention Center and Sheraton Overland Park Hotel at the Convention Center in Overland Park, Kansas. The name of the convention comes from the Japanese word for "center/middle".

website: http://www.naka-kon.com/